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THE GROWTH OF THE SPA component within the travel and meeting industries is continuing unabated, both internationally and within the United States...

SMALL BUSINESSES represent some 3.5 million enterprises across the United States. Recognition can be a competitive advantage for small companies, yet they often overlook some of the most important things they can do, thinking they just don't have...

INCENTIVE WINNERS SHARE SEVERAL TRAITS: They are bright, energetic, confident go-getters, so they do not like to sit in their seats very long. This is not the time to choose a talking head at a podium...

THIS YEAR'S MOTIVATION SHOW, to be held September 27-29 at McCormick Place South in Chicago, has kicked its seminar and workshop program “up another level,” according to show spokesman Wayne Dunham, who says more than 50 different sessions are...

JERRY MCGEE HAS A STORY he likes to tell about how not to launch an incentive campaign...

Fifty-two percent of salespeople who qualify for incentives at their companies feel that they have little to no chance of winning.

SOURCE: Maritz Incentives survey

A RECENT SURVEY of incentive planners by the Incentive Federation shows that about one in four respondents runs an online incentive program — a significant gain of 19 percent from the last survey, completed in 2003. Larger companies have been the...

“DON'T UNDERESTIMATE THE POWER OF DEMOTIVATION.” That's the warning of E.L. Kersten, PhD, author of the newly released The Art of Demotivation (2005, Despair Ink). In his sarcastic and scathing style, Kersten, a former university professor who had...

Who said you needed horses to play polo? At the Ritz-Carlton Lake Las Vegas, meeting attendees play using Segway Human Transporters and soft foam mallets and balls. Segway Polo is becoming popular as a two-hour teambuilding activity because it...